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The Necessary Evil

Mining is a complicated business. It’s destructive, it’s dangerous. But in order to get the lithium we need to power the energy transition, mining could be a necessary evil.


In this episode, we go from protests in South America to a gold mine in Nevada, where we tak ...

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Electrify Everything

To survive the climate crisis, we need to electrify everything: our cars, of course, but also our appliances, homes, mass transit, entire neighborhoods and cities. Everything. 


That’s no small task. So to better understand why electrifying everything matters, and ho ...

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